窨

窨 U+7AA8, 窨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7AA8 ← 窧 [U+7AA7] CJK Unified Ideographs 窩 → [U+7AA9]

Translingual

Han character

窨 (Kangxi radical 116, 穴+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 十金卜廿日 (JCYTA), four-corner 3060₁, composition ⿱穴音)

Derived characters

• 噾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 866, character 59
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25578
• Dae Jaweon: page 1295, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2736, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7AA8

Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		窨
simp. #		窨
alternative forms		堷

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house; pit; womb”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yìn (yin⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam³
• Eastern Min (BUC): áng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ing⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yìn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yìn
    • Wade–Giles: yin⁴
    • Yale: yìn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yinn
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jam³
    • Yale: yam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam³
    • Guangdong Romanization: yem³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐm³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: áng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɑŋ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ing⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁴²/

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• Middle Chinese: 'imH

Rime
Character	窨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於禁切
Baxter	'imH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪmH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚimH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiemH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjimH/
Li Rong	/ʔjəmH/
Wang Li	/ĭĕmH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əmH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yìn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jam3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯms/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	窨
Reading #	1/1
No.	15227
Phonetic component	音
Rime group	侵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蔭
Old Chinese	/*qrɯms/

Definitions

窨

1. a cellar, a storeroom
2. to store in such a cellar

Synonyms

• 地下室 (dìxiàshì)

Compounds

• 冰窨
• 地窨 (dìyìn)
• 地窨子 (dìyìnzi)
• 攧窨 / 𭣇窨
• 窨井 (yìnjǐng)
• 窨付
• 窨子
• 窨戶 / 窨户
• 窨約 / 窨约
• 窨腹
• 窨藏
• 跌窨

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 窨 – see 熏 (“smoke; fog; warm; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 熏).

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 窨 – see 響 (“to make a sound; to make a noise; loud and clear; resonant; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 響).

Further reading

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03149
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “窨”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 271.